hybridizing vs mating

hybridizing and mating both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hybridizing	Yes	No	No	No
mating	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mating is a hypernym of hybridizing; that is, mating is a word with a broader meaning than hybridizing:

hybridizing: (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
mating: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

Other hypernyms of hybridizing include conjugation, coupling, pairing, sexual union, union.

hybridizing (noun)	mating (noun)
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids	the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes